Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Career Development Guide
By Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD | November 13, 2009
Career Development – A Tact to Ensure That Your Career Progresses Uninterrupted
Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Career Development Guide By Belsheba Nyabwa
One aspect of personal growth is career development hence it is important as an individual to approach this issue carefully and tactfully. A number of people are known to make mistakes that eventually delay their career development or cost them all together. It is also good to realize that having college certificates does not necessarily guarantee you success in your career.
There is an adage that says, do not put all your eggs in one basket. Even if you get verbal job offers from very reliable and trusted employers, do not entirely count on their word. Some people are known to even resign from their present employment on the basis of having being offered a job by another employer. It is always prudent to get a commitment letter before writing that resignation letter.
Sometimes the offers could be genuine but there are always unpredictable events that may arise in between and persuade your prospective employer otherwise. I do not need to inform you that you can end up without any job in the first place. The lack or absence of a commitment letter makes it easy for an employer to overturn an offer.
Nowadays, getting employment is not easy, since many are entering the job market and hence the competition for the limited vacancies is quiet high. The economic recession has not made things any better with many experienced and skilled individuals losing their employment through retrenchments. These same people are entering the job market and may have an edge over you hence think twice before you leave your current employment in the name of having gotten an offer from a trusted and reliable employer.
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Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Career Development and Promotion at Work
By Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD | November 13, 2009
Self Improvement in Relation to Career Development and Promotion at Work
Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Career Development and Promotion at Work By Belsheba Nyabwa
Self development includes improving your personal financial standing and developing your career. On this article I will deal in depth on ways of enhancing your career and personal life in general.
A quality that will help enhance your career is to be prepared to learn and acquire new skills as pertaining to your profession. Enroll in courses that will increase your knowledge base and thus boost your curriculum vitae. There are great correspondence courses on the internet which you can take advantage of even though you are busy at your place of work.
Taking initiative is a value that every employer seeks in every employee. This is a sign of leadership qualities and your employer will be quick to notice. In case you notice something needs to be done take the initiative to attend to it no matter how trivial it may appear, you may never know who is watching.
Be it in a social or business setting, honesty is absolutely important. Being truthful is a virtue that has to be observed by any person desiring to develop his or her career. With many people nowadays lacking trustworthiness, you can imagine the advantage you will have over others.
A value that cannot be taken lightly is being knowledgeable about the company you are working for. Read through the vision and the mission statement of your organization and if possible cram them. Get to know the board of directors and what the company intends to achieve every financial year. Then align yourself to the firm’s visions.
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Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Freelance Writing Jobs
By Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD | October 3, 2009
Career Advice On Freelance Writing Jobs
Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Freelance Writing Jobs By Niall Cinneide
Sometimes the freelance writing jobs available are those that no one wants. Or, they are those that new businesses are looking to fill. You will not find postings for the best jobs and employment because many of those jobs go to individuals who already have an established career or a good working relationship with those businesses. For those looking for career advice to find the best freelance writing jobs available, they can find a few things here that will help them get the experience they need or at least get a foot in the door.
* The most important aspect of getting the jobs that you want is to present a well written portfolio. Any writer can create pieces of work to show to individuals who want a sample. You do not have to be commissioned to write, you can write just for the sake of filling your portfolio. Just remember to put the best of the best work you have in there.
* Secondly, there are many types of freelance writing jobs available. Yes, it is not just the book or prized article that you should look for. Look for vacancies in smaller areas as well. This will help you to develop relationships in the field.
* Strive to meet the client’s needs. This will mean that you meet deadlines. It will mean that you offer the best material you can. But, it needs to meet the client’s specified requirements, not necessarily what you think they should be.
* Be professional, and build a website. Most businesses these days are centered around their websites. Being professional means presenting yourself in the most appropriate way.
In any case, there can be be many freelance writing jobs available to you once you are in the know. When you learn how to write to your clients needs and meet those needs properly with each and every assignment that you do, employment will be available to you. To find the assignments to start with, you may have to present yourself outright. Simply always do so in a positive, professional manner.
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Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Career Plan
By Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD | September 17, 2009
Your Career Plan–Think Like A CEO
Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Career Plan By Elizabeth Lengyel
You’ve been going 6-to-late; exhausted by running the supersonic treadmill of life and wish you had a different job. But you can’t because you have no time and you’re left spent at the end of every day. Conversely, you’re gut tells you that everything would be different if you could only find the right career match. You could stop hitting the snooze button every morning and get back into enjoying the game of life.
You might be surprised to learn that thinking like a CEO will teach you a lot about career planning. Wonder how? Then read on and learn how being a CEO has everything to do with mapping out a successful career.
1. As a Chief Exploration Officer, your first step is to engage in self-exploration. It is the key to career planning and decision-making. The better you know yourself, the more informed career decisions you’ll make. One of the best ways to hone in on your natural talents, interests and strengths is to re-visit your childhood years, dreams and passions. What did you love to do? Who did you enjoy being with? What did you like to play most? What were your favorite sports and interests? Did you have any hobbies? Where did you picture yourself in the future? The past often holds the best clues. You might also want to seek the help of a trained career counselor or coach to help you define career options that fit your talents and interests, and help you explore current and future labour markets and trends. Narrow down the choices and seriously examine one or two career options that fit you. Trust your heart or intuition. It most often leads you in the right direction.
2. As a Chief Educational Officer, you need to examine the competencies and skills required in your choice of work. Once you determine one or more career options, list the skills and competencies you need to move forward. What do you need to know? And what do you currently know? Make a plan to fill the gaps whether through school, apprenticeship, reading, volunteering, etc.
3. As a Chief Experiential Officer, you need to talk to the people who are actually in the career you’ve identified for yourself. It takes you from dream mode to reality check. Seek out at least 5 people who are working in the career field you have identified. Hint, the more people you interview, the better. You will find common themes and information that will be invaluable to your career planning process and final decision. Don’t hesitate in making the calls. Most people love to talk about themselves and their expertise. If possible, ask to meet with them in person. It provides a more high touch approach. When you meet, be candid and curious. This is your opportunity to learn from people who are working what you’re still thinking about. Preplan some questions carefully. Do they enjoy their job? What kind of education and experience do they recommend? What do they like and dislike? Ask for their recommendations and what they think you need to be successful in the career. You might also want to think about inviting one of them to be your mentor as you move forward in your personal career aspirations and goals.
4. As a Chief Engagement Officer, you will have to stay on top of your game. Stay self-motivated, energized and engaged in the career planning process. Here’s the truth. Career planning, exploring and making career choices take energy and time. Think about what you will need from yourself, as well as from your environment, schedule and support network to keep yourself engaged and moving forward. Think about what nourishes and nurtures you. What feeds your energy level?
5. As a Chief Employment Officer, you are your greatest resource in finding the right employment. In the end, the career planning process leads you to finding the right job for the right money. A combination of statistics and interviews continue to prove that networks are the number one resource to finding your next job. Stay well connected and share your plans. In the end it is you who’s going to turn career planning and aspirations into reality.
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Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Business Career Advice
By Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD | September 9, 2009
Business Career Advice: Stop Feeling Guilty About Time Off!
Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Business Career Advice By Paul Megan
Are you sitting at your desk dreamily imagining yourself on a South Seas vacation? Or maybe a rollicking holiday with the family? Or maybe you’d prefer to stay home and watch some DVDs.
Wanting to take some time off shouldn’t make you feel guilty. In fact, in her new book, “Time Off for Good Behavior,” Mary Lou Quinlan writes that seven out of 10 people fantasize about leaving work for a few months.
What’s more, she reports that taking a break can help you feel less burned out. It can help you organize your life goals. Most people don’t realize that taking time off–guilt free–isn’t as difficult as it might seem.
So don’t feel like you’re condemned to remaining chained to your desk. Here are six options you can check out:
1. Make a plan. Think about why you want time off. Do you just need a few days to relax? Or are you looking to completely assess your career?
2. Figure out how much time off you’ll need to come back fully refreshed.
3. Count your days off. Figure out how many vacation days you have. Add in any remaining sick or personal days.
4. Check out company policy. You may be eligible for a sabbatical with full or partial pay. Or you may have the option of re-entering the company after an unpaid leave.
5. Talk to your employer. If the company doesn’t have a policy or spell out the details of flexible time off, now is the time to find out what the company can offer you.
6. Negotiate for what you need.
The point is you shouldn’t be afraid to take some needed time off. It may be just what you need to get your life back in focus and prioritize what really important.
Furthermore, if you are a valued employee, your boss expects you to come forward with recommendations that show how the company will benefit from your time off.
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Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Better Way of Life
By Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD | July 11, 2009
Top Career Advice – More Choices and A Better Way of Life
Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Better Way of Life By Roger Clark
Why Career Advice Is So Important
Choosing a career presents a nerve-racking decision, as it can have a life-long impact on you. Do not fret, as you can gain a clearer outlook into your future by thorough career planning.
Having a clear vision of the future can guide you by helping you set career goals and helping you on your way towards attaining them. Whether you are starting out on a new career or looking to change your current career, you will benefit enormously from taking sound advice.
Don’t Spend Most of Your Life Doing …
Chances are that you will be spending a great deal of time at your job, about 40 hours a week. Career advice and career profiling can guide you to a job that is enjoyable for you and matches your interests.
There are many reasons people change their careers and career advice can help them along the way. Some frequently cited reasons are:
· Stuck in a dead end job.
· Lost interest in current line of work.
· Gained a new interest in a different career option.
A Job For Life … Not Anymore
In today’s world, there is increased job rotation … also with the down turns in the economy, many people can be laid-off.
Good career advice for unemployed persons would be to consider a career change. Some of the fastest growing occupations are Medical Assistant, Network Systems Analyst, Physician Assistant, etc. Occupations that are struggling to gain workers can be a suitable option for currently unemployed individuals.
People often back off from changing careers if they are unsure of the effort it might take to start a new career and learn a new trade. If you are one of these people, career advice from professionals can help you make a knowledgeable decision.
How To Identify Your Career Choices
When choosing a new career field, career advice and career planning can help you figure out your career choices. When embarking on a new career, you need to take into account your previous education and work experience.
You should start thinking about the skills you currently possess and how they can be beneficial in each of the new career options available to you.
Have You Considered a Career Test?
Valuable career advice can come from career tests as they can help in identifying suitable job options. Career tests include tests such as personality profiling, leadership skills, motivation, management style, etc.
The results of such tests can give you the career advice that can direct you to a suitable career, by matching your interests with career options.
Many career tests are offered online. They may be free or available for a small fee. Many experts provide the career advice to employment seekers to take some time to plan their career and set their goals. Knowing your career goals can provide you with valuable guidance.
Remember that career planning and goal setting is an on-going process, changing as you continue on your career.
The web can be a great source to find valuable career advice. It can provide you with many resources to research new career choices and find out information on a particular career field such as average salary, work environment, job responsibilities, etc.
Use Resumes That Give You an Advantage
Whether you are starting a career, changing careers or looking for a different job in your present career, the best career advice is to have a great, eye-catching resume.
You may be thinking about using your old resume, maybe the one you made after graduating from college. However, you will have to make changes to that resume to make it relevant to your present situation.
Upgrade your resume with the additional skills and experiences you have acquired. People going through a career change, need to present the skills they have acquired through the years in a way that makes it relevant to the new career jobs for which they are applying.
You may not have all the standard education for that career, so you need to convince potential employers that your previous education and work experience have given you the skills that make you a suitable candidate to transition into that job.
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Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Guaranteeing the Next Interview
By Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD | May 20, 2009
Guaranteeing the Next Interview
Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Guaranteeing the Next Interview By Rick H McKnight
In today’s economy job interviews are fewer and farther between so when you have one, is there a way to guarantee an offer or at least getting the next interview? The answer is yes and I have proved it. I have had offers on each of my last 5 job interviews. All of those involved multiple interviews for fairly senior positions. I learned that after one set of interviews that turned into a job offer that I was the first interviewee of 32. This article is about how to use some of the concepts that I have used in your own interview process. There are really only three.
People hire people they like. The fact that you have an interview means that your resume opened the door or that you networked into the situation or the recruiter put you in the mix for the position. The chances are very high that you have the skills and experience that they are looking for since you were called in for the interview. Now it is a question of do you fit in to their culture. Do you have similar characteristics as the people interviewing you? Do they like you?
So the question is how do you get people who do not know you to like you when you may have only half an hour to an hour? The answer is that you have to genuinely care about the person that is interviewing you. This gives you the perspective that you are there to help them make a very important decision-who to hire. If the person who is interviewing you gets the sense that you are more interested in helping them make the right decision than you are of getting an offer it helps them accept that you are not just selling them on you. Interviewing is about sales and sales is about having people understand that you are not selling them. The difference is subtle. Yet profound. If you really care about the person would you have them hire you even if you were the wrong person for the job?
How do you actually do this? Number one is that you have to lose the self-concern, nervousness, and anxiety about how you answer their questions. How do you do this? Preparation. This means you have to know what is important to them so you can anticipate their questions. Read the job description carefully, use your network to find out what the company is like, who the hiring manager is and what is her perspective. What does the website tell you about the company. Talk to customers of the company. So doing all of this makes you better prepared for the interview and it gives you confidence. Confidence allows you to calmly listen to the question, respond to the question with your own question when needed and to show some enthusiasm. I was in an interview for a career consulting position and at the end the hiring manager said to me, “I don’t know much about you, but you are my number one candidate”. Hearing that helped me go through the next 4 interviews, do a public workshop and group coaching session before, finally the job offer came through.
The other element of preparation that many people miss is the mental preparation. This is vital. What this involves is taking some minutes to visualize the outcome that you desire. Close your eyes, breathe deeply and see yourself calmly chatting with the interviewer. See the interviewer warming up to you. See her smiling and the rapport build. At the end watch her shake your hand and invite you to the next stage. Involved all of the senses that you can in this visualization as they make it more real. You can do this the night before the interview and right before it as well. If you calmly say to yourself that you are going to get an offer and know this to be the case, this is what will happen. The interview that I mentioned where they were interviewing 32 others, I told myself that I was going to land this position and I saw if happening in my mind clearly before the interview. I was asked to prepare with a role play for the interview and before that started, I asked the interviewers (a panel) if they were prepared to make a decision today. When they said that they weren’t, I stood up and suggested that we do this another time. They immediately said that they were prepared to make a decision. It takes a lot of confidence to threaten to walk out of an interview but it also can create a lot of desire on the part of the interviewer to keep you there. Shortly thereafter I was asked to come for a lunch and was given an offer.
Confidence, preparation and caring are the cornerstones of having a great interview.
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Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Career Development
By Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD | May 8, 2009
LinkedIn and Your Career Development
Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Career Development By Peggy Murrah and Chris Muccio
LinkedIn is more than just another social networking site in the Internet. It can actually help you in your career development. There are around 20 million professionals connected by LinkedIn. With millions of professionals out there that you can connect with, you can make your career grow with the help of LinkedIn and other professionals.
Your LinkedIn profile maybe considered as your online resume. As a professional, your educational background, your organizational and company affiliations and other important professional information may be shown in your LinkedIn profile. This way, other professionals and employers can easily learn who you are and what you have to offer.
You can also increase your visibility by adding keywords that are related to your profession and to what you do best as a professional. If employers and people who are looking for a resource person related to your field will search for those keywords, you get a better chance of being the first person on the list.
Connect and grow your network. From your email address book, you can easily add friends to your LinkedIn network. You can also search friends who were employed by the same company you are connected with right now. There should be at least 50 people in your first degree connection in order for you to maximize your use of LinkedIn. Anything less than this would just make you another one of those less effective users of LinkedIn.
Use LinkedIn Answers to the Max. Just like Yahoo Answers!, LinkedIn has LinkedIn Answers that allows people to post questions to the network. If you have any concern in your career development or in the way you do your work, you can just use this feature and solicit answer from all sorts of professionals in your network. You can also answer the questions posted by other people in the network so that people can notice what you know and what you have to offer.
LinkedIn is one of the best features of Web 2.0. It connects people and gives them a chance to get together for professional and work-related reasons. With its 20 million users worldwide, it would be great to connect and promote your own professional expertise.
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Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Management Studies In Career Development
By Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD | April 30, 2009
Management Studies In Career Development – Reasons For Its Importance
Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Management Studies In Career Development By Abhishek Agarwal
If you answered YES to the above question, then you just might be the best person to offer sufficient and viable solutions by assisting these tired souls locate what they need, and you may as well be sure of making big success in this career development business. But one thing that you need to learn before plunging deep into the world of career development and planning business is management studies. The Function of management studies course in career development is mostly overlooked by people already in the business of career management. They tend to focus more on getting their clients any old job position they can disregard of the function of management studies in those careers. It’s to understand that people personalities differ greatly and some maybe best fit for management positions than they are as regular employees. If you understand the functions of management studies in career improvement good for you, because you will be better positioned to place your clients in right job positions that please them with your services.
The very first thing you should think about when it comes to the functions of management studies in career development are the core characteristics required for a job in management role. A good example is that fine and excellent managers are often good leaders. If you come into contact with a person at your career management establishment that says they posses fine leadership skills, then consider them fit for managerial position. Another characteristic of good managers is the ability to motivate others. If they are adept at making people feel competent about their jobs and also lead them to getting some good work done, then they are most likely to make excellent managers. You will discover that the function of management studies in career development is an essential one. Some personalities are better suited to certain business roles than other. If a person best fit for a management role is placed in a non-management career, they are apt to end feeling very underutilized and unfulfilled. Should this happen, then you would have done a very bad job, because you placed matched them with a wrong career.
Functions of management studies in career growth can be learnt from different places. Books are available on the subject in most libraries and bookshops. They are mostly located in the business, career development and management sections there. A wealth of information on the same can also be obtained from the internet. We have sites that have been specially designed to focus in the career development business.
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